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Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter If this proves Erik ten Hag’s farewell to Old Trafford, at least it summed up some of the finest elements of the Dutchman’s fraught second season at Manchester United. There was entertainment in abundance and goals by three youngsters; Kobbie Mainoo and Amad Diallo were given their chance by Ten Hag, Rasmus Hojlund signed by him. A patched-up team delivered a victory against one of the better teams in the country, Casemiro was talismanic if also culpable,…

Chad Daybell gets emotional as 911 call is played at his murder trialThe latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USJurors listened to never-before-heard jail phone calls in a Boise, Idaho courtroom on Wednesday that revealed “doomsday” author Chad Daybell told his wife Lori Vallow that he texted her dead brother, Alex Cox. Daybell, 55, is on trial for the 2019 murders of his former wife Tammy, and Vallow’s children, Tylee Ryan, 16, and JJ, seven. The children were found buried in Daybell’s Idaho…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter It was one of the moments of the season, one that people will talk about for years, but might well have been followed by something that said much more about the modern history of Tottenham Hotspur.On 85 minutes, with the title on the line, Son Heung-Min bore down on goal after a Manuel Akanji slip. The Korean is statistically the best finisher in the Premier League, so this might have been the miracle Arsenal needed. Ederson wasn’t…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsWhen Duncan Macmillan’s play about an actress recovering from drug addiction opened at the National Theatre in 2015, many said how wonderful it was, and how rare, to see such a complex lead role written for a woman. Denise Gough had been on the verge of quitting the profession when her portrayal of Emma turned her into a star overnight. It was compared to Mark Rylance’s performance in Jerusalem, helping to power a 2016 West End transfer…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsSlovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico has been injured in a shooting and rushed to hospital. The incident took place in the town of Handlova, some 150 kilometres northeast of the capital Bratislava, after a government meeting. TA3, a Slovakian TV station, has reported that the 59-year-old premier was hit in the stomach during the daylight attack. A suspect has been detained, with dramatic images showing a man handcuffed on the ground. The shooting occurred in…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Everyone could see what was coming – everyone, that is, except for Manchester City’s Manuel Akanji. The isolated Akanji took a touch on the halfway line, then greedily took another, and before Ruben Dias could say “man on” he’d been sacked by a foraging Brennan Johnson.Akanji stumbled, Johnson collapsed in a heap and the ball bounced forwards into no man’s land. Son Heung-min rushed on to it and bore down on goal, and suddenly we all knew…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emails Slovakia’s government approved a plan on Wednesday to build another nuclear reactor in a country that relies heavily on nuclear electricity generation.The new reactor, with an expected output of 1,200 megawatts, is to be built at the Jaslovske Bohunice nuclear plant, where the utility Slovenske Elektrarne currently operates two nuclear units.The government said its ministers of finance and economy would work out the details by the end of October. Economy Minister Denisa Sakova previously…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter The first Fifa Women’s Club World Cup could be introduced from 2026, and be held every four years.It has been proposed that the first edition of the tournament would feature 16 teams, in contrast to the new men’s version, which will feature 32 from 2025.The first tournament has been proposed for January to February 2026, in the middle of the European domestic season, but before the NWSL, which started in March this year.In Europe, it is likely…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsThe fierce legal debate over a bear that killed a jogger in the Italian Alps last year is set to come to an end.The female Alpin Brown bear will now be relocated to a sanctuary in Germany, authorities from the northern Italian province of Trento said on Tuesday.After the bear, known as JJ4, fatally attacked a 26-year-old man in April 2023, Trento administrators issued an order for its capture and execution. The death sentence was…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter A Malaysian football star has been moved out of intensive care but will stay in hospital after he was splashed with acid in the latest of a string of attacks on prominent footballers in the Southeast Asian country.Faisal Halim was attacked at a shopping mall outside the capital Kuala Lumpur on 5 May. The attacks have triggered concerns about the safety of players.Halim, 25, a star winger for Selangor Football Club, has undergone several skin graft surgeries to…